Kaushik Iska
Director Of Engineering at ClickHouse
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Iska is a Director of Engineering and founder-turned-operator with a decade of experience building high-performance databases and distributed systems. As Co-founder and former CTO of PeerDB (YC S23), acquired by ClickHouse, he helped redefine Postgres replication to make real-time analytics more accessible and now leads database integrations and foundational systems at ClickHouse. His background includes large-scale systems work at Google (notably on Flutter, macOS/Metal/Vulkan embedder work and Fuchsia), Palantir, SafeGraph, and significant open-source contributions to Flutter plugins such as webview_flutter. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning rendering engines, geospatial pipelines, and data infrastructure—with product-minded leadership that grows curious, high-performing teams. Based in Austin, Kaushik blends startup grit with enterprise-scale experience and a competitive-programming pedigree that once took him to the ACM ICPC World Finals. He is particularly skilled at turning complex replication and integration problems into elegant, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech (Hons), Computer Science, B.Tech (Hons), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
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Github Skills (12)
android-webview10
ios10
flutter-game10
webview10
dart10
android10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
plugin9
http-header9
testing8
ruby6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/plugins
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:2 reviews, 37 commits, 141 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kaushik primarily contributed to the `webview_flutter` plugin, implementing and modifying core functionality for both Android and iOS platforms. Their work focused on adding features, such as cookie and cache management, and fixing platform-specific issues. They also addressed build-related concerns, like handling collection literals and updating the plugin's manifest.
dartandroidpluginflutter-pluginios
flutter/packages
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
A collection of useful packages maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 2 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kaushik contributed to the webview_flutter package, primarily focused on enhancing its functionality and user experience. They added features to clear cookies and cache, improving the webview's control over data management. The user also implemented the ability to load URLs with custom headers, improving the webview's flexibility, and fixed a flaky test. These changes demonstrate a focus on both the core webview functionality and providing improved developer control.
flutterdart
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